The termination was wholly arbitrary and without contractual basis.” As a result, the authors are seeking damages in excess of $10 million. According to the court filing by Hickman and Weis’ legal representatives, “No reason was provided for the termination. Then, in August, the entire trilogy of books was allegedly cancelled by Wizards of the Coast, including the already completed manuscript, with the publisher informing the authors it would not approve any further drafts - effectively halting the project. The draft for the second entry in the series, provisionally titled Dragons of Fate, is also said to have been finished.

The documents claim that Wizards of the Coast was working on approving the book’s translation into other languages and “encouraging” Hickman and Weis to work on the remaining two books in the trilogy. By that June, a full outline of the first book, Dragons of Deceit, was submitted to Wizards, with the manuscript completed by November and subsequently approved by the publisher at the start of 2020. In March 2019, a licensing agreement was allegedly made between the authors and Wizards to publish the new trilogy of D&D novels with book publisher Penguin Random House.

The planned novels would have marked the creators' return to the Dragonlance franchise after more than a decade. Dicebreaker has reached out to Wizards for a statement on the filed notice.Īccording to documents filed on October 16th, Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis - who have penned the Dragonlance series since its first instalment, 1984’s Dragons of Autumn Twilight - were approached in 2017 to write a new trilogy of Dragonlance books. No details have emerged regarding the future publication of new Dragonlance novels or the D&D publisher’s involvement in them. Update : Weiss and Hickman filed a Notice of Dismissal Without Prejudice on December 18th 2020, ending the lawsuit against Wizards of the Coast. The authors of long-running Dungeons & Dragons book series Dragonlance are suing the tabletop RPG’s publisher Wizards of the Coast for an alleged breach of contract regarding an upcoming - and now cancelled - trilogy of novels.

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